
No joke: Learning about urine offers healthy lessons
Feb 19, 2025
Pee is the product of a delicate balance managed by the kidneys that's essential to your health, including the heart. Here's what's going on whenever you go.
Feb 19, 2025
Pee is the product of a delicate balance managed by the kidneys that's essential to your health, including the heart. Here's what's going on whenever you go.
Feb 18, 2025
JoAnne Klimovich Harrop stayed with her mother in a nursing home during the COVID-19 lockdown. She supported her mother – who had survived a stroke – and other residents, creating a new family.
Feb 17, 2025
Sandwich generation caregivers must care for ailing parents while still raising their own children. This dual responsibility takes a toll – physically, emotionally and financially.
Feb 14, 2025
After a heart attack, Angie Loving wasn't about to be married in the hospital. "I will get married to you," she told her fiancé, "as long as … I can walk down the aisle wearing a wedding gown and shoes." On Leap Day 2020, that's what she did.
Feb 13, 2025
Heart disease, typically thought of as an adult problem, can develop much earlier in life – even before birth. Here's what parents can do to protect their children's hearts.
Feb 12, 2025
South Asian adults in the United Kingdom may experience higher blood pressure earlier in life than East Asian adults, a new analysis projects.
Feb 11, 2025
Pulmonologist Dr. Reza Ronaghi, who lost his home in the Palisades fire, offers advice about how to protect health in a wildfire's wake.
Feb 10, 2025
Looking for ways to put some healthy changes into your holiday? You'll love these Valentine's Day ideas.
Feb 7, 2025
Thanks to first responders and months of rehabilitation, Tara Yell returned to her kids at home and at school after having a cardiac arrest.
Feb 6, 2025
The length of telomeres, the protective caps at the end of chromosomes, in white blood cells may help predict the likelihood of having a stroke, developing dementia or experiencing late-life depression, according to preliminary new research.
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